It is getting hotter in here: determining and projecting the impacts of global environmental change on drylands

Understanding the coupled natural and human systems in Dryland East Asia

(2012) Jiaguo Qi et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Moisture flux convergence in regional and global climate models: Implications for droughts in the southwestern United States under climate change

(2012) Yanhong Gao et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands

(2012) A. J. Dougill et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Testing mechanisms of N-enrichment-induced species loss in a semiarid Inner Mongolia grassland: critical thresholds and implications for long-term ecosystem responses

(2012) Z. Lan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Hydrologic variability in dryland regions: impacts on ecosystem dynamics and food security

(2012) P. D'Odorico et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impact of grazing intensity on seasonal variations in soil organic carbon and soil CO2 efflux in two semiarid grasslands in southern Botswana

(2012) A. D. Thomas   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Navigating challenges and opportunities of land degradation and sustainable livelihood development in dryland social-ecological systems: a case study from Mexico

(2012) E. Huber-Sannwald et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change effects on above- and below-ground interactions in a dryland ecosystem

(2012) A. Gonzalez-Megias et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: implications for ecosystem structure and functioning

(2012) C. Escolar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A demographic approach to study effects of climate change in desert plants

(2012) R. Salguero-Gomez et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Legacies of precipitation fluctuations on primary production: theory and data synthesis

(2012) O. E. Sala et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Warming and increased precipitation frequency on the Colorado Plateau: implications for biological soil crusts and soil processes

(2012) Tamara J. Zelikova et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant Species Richness and Ecosystem Multifunctionality in Global Drylands

(2012) F. T. Maestre et al.   SCIENCE

Overestimation of Mediterranean summer temperature projections due to model deficiencies

(2012) Fredrik Boberg et al.   Nature Climate Change

Emerging migration flows in a changing climate in dryland Africa

(2012) Dominic R. Kniveton et al.   Nature Climate Change

The hydrologic consequences of land cover change in central Argentina

(2011) M.D. Nosetto et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change

(2011) Kevin E. McCluney et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Responses of photosynthetic capacity to soil moisture gradient in perennial rhizome grass and perennial bunchgrass

(2011) Zhenzhu Xu et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas

(2011) Zakary Ratajczak et al.   ECOLOGY

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Nitrogen deposition effects on Mediterranean-type ecosystems: An ecological assessment

(2011) Raúl Ochoa-Hueso et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Functional profiles reveal unique ecological roles of various biological soil crust organisms

(2011) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Precipitation variability and fire influence the temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in an arid grassland

(2011) Rodrigo Vargas et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effect of warming and drought on grassland microbial communities

(2011) Cody S Sheik et al.   ISME Journal

Climatic change and rainfall patterns: Effects on semi-arid plant communities of the Iberian Southeast

(2011) J.D. Miranda et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Assessing the benefits and costs of dryland forest restoration in central Chile

(2011) Ignacio Schiappacasse et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Scientific concepts for an integrated analysis of desertification

(2011) J. F. Reynolds et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

C4 grasses prosper as carbon dioxide eliminates desiccation in warmed semi-arid grassland

(2011) Jack A. Morgan et al.   NATURE

Functional consequences of climate change-induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie

(2011) Joseph M. Craine et al.   OECOLOGIA

Increase in water-use efficiency and underlying processes in pine forests across a precipitation gradient in the dry Mediterranean region over the past 30 years

(2011) Kadmiel Maseyk et al.   OECOLOGIA

Response of soil organic matter pools to elevated CO2 and warming in a semi-arid grassland

(2011) Yolima Carrillo et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Plant Diversity Surpasses Plant Functional Groups and Plant Productivity as Driver of Soil Biota in the Long Term

(2011) Nico Eisenhauer et al.   PLoS One

La costra biológica del suelo: Avances recientes en el conocimiento de su estructura y función ecológica

(2011) ANDREA P CASTILLO-MONROY et al.   REVISTA CHILENA DE HISTORIA NATURAL

The role of the simulation setup in a long-term high-resolution climate change projection for the southern African region

(2011) Andreas Haensler et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY

Safeguarding Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in the Little Karoo, South Africa

(2010) BENIS N. EGOH et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Global mechanisms for sustaining and enhancing PES schemes

(2010) Josh Farley et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Landscape changes of desertification in arid areas: the case of south-west Algeria

(2010) Aziz Hirche et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT

Differential responses of production and respiration to temperature and moisture drive the carbon balance across a climatic gradient in New Mexico

(2010) KRISTINA J. ANDERSON-TEIXEIRA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications for global change

(2010) EDMUND E. GROTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland

(2010) MICHELL L. THOMEY et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Do biotic interactions modulate ecosystem functioning along stress gradients? Insights from semi-arid plant and biological soil crust communities

(2010) F. T. Maestre et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A global comparison of grassland biomass responses to CO2 and nitrogen enrichment

(2010) M. Lee et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Predicting species distribution and abundance responses to climate change: why it is essential to include biotic interactions across trophic levels

(2010) W. H. Van der Putten et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cost-effectiveness of dryland forest restoration evaluated by spatial analysis of ecosystem services

(2010) J. C. Birch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sustaining multiple ecosystem functions in grassland communities requires higher biodiversity

(2010) E. S. Zavaleta et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Climate Change and Highland Malaria: Fresh Air for a Hot Debate

(2010) Luis Fernando Chaves et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Climate change and Australia: key vulnerable regions

(2010) Lesley Hughes   Regional Environmental Change

Water limitation and plant inter-specific competition reduce rhizosphere-induced C decomposition and plant N uptake

(2010) Feike A. Dijkstra et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Climate change increases the likelihood of catastrophic avian mortality events during extreme heat waves

(2009) A. E. McKechnie et al.   Biology Letters

Do Changes in Connectivity Explain Desertification?

(2009) Gregory S. Okin et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Shrub encroachment can reverse desertification in semi-arid Mediterranean grasslands

(2009) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Indication of antagonistic interaction between climate change and erosion on plant species richness and soil properties in semiarid Mediterranean ecosystems

(2009) PATRICIO GARCÍA-FAYOS et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Responses of dryland soil respiration and soil carbon pool size to abrupt vs. gradual and individual vs. combined changes in soil temperature, precipitation, and atmospheric [CO2]: a simulation analysis

(2009) WEIJUN SHEN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome

(2009) JANA L. HEISLER-WHITE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Impact of drought on vegetation dynamics of the Mongolian steppe: A field experiment

(2009) M. Shinoda et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Post-fire primary production and plant community dynamics in chaparral stands exposed to varying levels of nitrogen deposition

(2009) S.C. Pasquini et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

30 Years of protection and monitoring of a steppic rangeland undergoing desertification

(2009) H. Slimani et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships of Flightless Beetles Belonging to the GenusMesechthistatusBreuning, (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Inferred from Mitochondrial COI Gene Sequences.

(2009) Hiroshi Nakamine et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Impacts of climate change and environmental factors on reproduction and development in wildlife

(2009) S. R. Milligan et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa

(2009) M. B. Burke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biological crusts as a model system for examining the biodiversity–ecosystem function relationship in soils

(2009) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Opportunities to reduce the vulnerability of dryland farmers in Central and West Asia and North Africa to climate change

(2008) R.J. Thomas   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Changes in soil enzymes related to C and N cycle and in soil C and N content under prolonged warming and drought in a Mediterranean shrubland

(2008) J. Sardans et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Experimental warming does not enhance soil respiration in a semiarid temperate forest-steppe ecosystem

(2008) E. Lellei-Kovács et al.   COMMUNITY ECOLOGY

Effects of Urbanization-Induced Environmental Changes on Ecosystem Functioning in the Phoenix Metropolitan Region, USA

(2008) Weijun Shen et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Mediterranean water cycle changes: transition to drier 21st century conditions in observations and CMIP3 simulations

(2008) Annarita Mariotti et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Whole ecosystem metabolic pulses following precipitation events

(2008) G. D. Jenerette et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Global change and biological soil crusts: effects of ultraviolet augmentation under altered precipitation regimes and nitrogen additions

(2008) JAYNE BELNAP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Primary production dynamics and climate variability: ecological consequences in semiarid Chile

(2008) MARIANO DE LA MAZA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Decadal Climatic Variability, Trends, and Future Scenarios for the North China Plain

(2008) Guobin Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Pulse dynamics and microbial processes in aridland ecosystems

(2008) Scott L. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

A survey of storm-water management water quality regulations in four Mid-Atlantic States

(2008) Carmine C. Balascio et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Land clearance and hydrological change in the Sahel: SW Niger

(2007) Marc J. Leblanc et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE